york city. >>shepard: no one wants to pay more taxes. what the president is doing he is not saying $250,000, to observers it sounds as if he is ready for compromise. he said he is ready for compromise. >>gerri: and today he met with a dozen corporate leaders from the biggest corporations, walmart, g.e. and chevron, at least six of them in the meeting today have already served on either the president's jobs council or other councils the president has had and lot of people discussing what to do with the fiscal cliff. interesting to see if they will get anywhere. the big question, where were the people from wall street and where the small business people? >>shepard: well, the truth is, the president has veto penn and doesn't have to extend this and the republicans can come to the table and sign off on extending the tax cuts. or not. it is up to them. but the rich will pay more. he just won. >>gerri: that is what he said in today's press conference. >>shepard: lawmakers talked to the head of the fam